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08/17/02
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The Way of the Gun (2000)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:49
Rotten:54
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: The Way of the Gun has some good parts, but overall, the movie is derivative, sloppy, and sluggish.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Box Office: $2,150,979
Synopsis: Two professional criminals, Parker (Ryan Phillippe) and Longbaugh (Benicio Del Toro), think they've devised the plan of a lifetime: kidnap Robin (Juliette Lewis), a pregnant surrogate mother, then... [More]
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, James Caan, Taye Diggs
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
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Reviews for The Way of the Gun
Certainly, [it] has a passive watchability but it never does anything new or different with its material
08/12/02
This to me is what seeing movies is all about. I was thoroughly entertained and had no idea what was coming next.
06/28/02
Pleasing in the most superficial of ways.
04/20/02
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03/24/02
So well-written, so clever, so innovative, and so aware of its place in the grand scheme of things that it is strangely empty of anything except technical skill.
02/28/02
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12/10/01
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09/10/01
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04/17/01
McQuarrie's entire roster strains the limits of character likability to the breaking point, and no amount of plot twists, double-crosses, or hidden alliances can help us relate to or even tolerate anyone on screen.
04/17/01
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03/21/01
replaces Tarantino's hip polish with a grave existentialism that is more reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah or the early films of William Friedkin
02/27/01
The screenplay has some great dialogue and some memorable scenes. But the story was just too confusing.
02/15/01
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02/14/01
Buen intento que se queda en el camino
02/14/01
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01/01/01
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01/01/00
This little crime drama is shiny and cool, but the derivativeness, series of overly convoluted substories and a silly, 'is it done yet?' bloodbath-roundup all end up shooting Gun in the foot.
01/01/00
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